On July 29, 250,000 power loom workers in Faisalabad, Pakistan鈥檚 third largest city, won a 17% pay increase after a nine day strike.
Authorities also agreed to release four unionists arrested during the dispute. The authorities鈥 backdown came after a march of more than 25,000 striking workers.
Thousands of workers rallied throughout the strike, despite the Punjab government banning public gatherings on July 19.
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Food security will be a focus of November鈥檚 Climate Change/Social Change conference, being held in Melbourne. An entire workshop stream will be devoted to the topic.
The global food system captures the insanity of production for profit: One in six people in the world are malnourished, yet the United Nations estimates that 40-50% of all food in the United States is wasted.
Food waste makes up to half of Australian landfills.
The First Nations Political Party (FNPP) is a new party contesting the upcoming federal election. The party will contest two lower house seat a and field a four-person senate ticket in WA. It will also run a senate candidate and content a lower house seat in the Northern Territory.
Aboriginal activists Marianne Mackay and Glenn Moore began working towards forming an Indigenous political party in late 2009. They have a goal to getting Aboriginal people elected to parliament.
鈥淲e need a pure Aboriginal voice in parliament鈥, Moore told 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
After spending over two weeks on the road together, students and activists onboard the New South Wales 鈥淚ndigenous Solidarity Ride鈥 stopped at Olympic Dam on July 15 to protest against a proposed uranium mine expansion.
The bus riders travelled through rural NSW and South Australia to attend the Defending Indigenous Rights: Land, Law, Culture convergence in Alice Springs over July 7-9. They also took part in the Students of Sustainability conference in Adelaide.
Soubhi Iskander is a Socialist Alliance Senate candidate for NSW in the 2010 federal elections. He was born in Sudan and has been a socialist for more than half a century. Despite being jailed and tortured, he remains a committed and active socialist and now is the editor of 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Arabic supplement, The Flame.
Iskander is furious but not surprised at the scapegoating of refugees and recent immigrants in the current federal election campaign.
Rachel Evans is running in the Australian federal election 2010 for a NSW Senate seat.
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